An Illinois state appellate panel vacated a jury's $7 million award for a Wendy's customer who was injured by a Chicago Housing Authority security guard during a shooting pursuit, saying the agency didn't owe the customer a legal duty to ensure its security contractor was hiring sufficiently experienced guards.
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Ill. Panel Axes $7M Verdict Against Chicago Housing Authority

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois state appellate panel vacated a jury's $7 million award for a Wendy's customer who was injured by a Chicago Housing Authority security guard during a shooting pursuit, saying the agency didn't owe the customer a legal duty to ensure its security contractor was hiring sufficiently experienced guards.

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7th Circ. Rejects Firms' Bid For More Flea Collar MDL Fees

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed an Illinois federal court's refusal to order a redistribution of attorney fees from a $15 million settlement resolving multidistrict litigation against Bayer and other manufacturers of Seresto flea and tick collars, saying two law firms arguing they were cut out of their fair share failed to timely challenge the fee-allocation process.

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Widow Sues Podhurst Orseck Over $4M 737 Max Settlement

By Mike Curley

An Indonesian widow is suing Podhurst Orseck PA and one of its attorneys in Illinois federal court, alleging they failed to keep her informed or get her all the money she was entitled to in a $4 million settlement with Boeing over the fatal crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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LITIGATION

OpenAI Says High Court Curbed Some News Org IP Claims

By Craig Clough

OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.

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Sports Tech Company Calls Rival's Licensing Claims False

By David Steele

Genius Sports has accused Panda Interactive in Delaware federal court of falsely claiming licensing deals in several states, connections with sportsbooks, and production of NFL-related content, the latest act in a multiyear legal battle between the rival sports tech companies.

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Progressive Says No Coverage For $3.1M Cargo Losses

By Danielle Ferguson

Progressive told an Illinois federal court Wednesday it does not owe coverage to a trucking company over $3.1 million worth of Nestle product reported missing from deliveries destined for Walmart, saying the insured trucking company has refused to participate in the investigation.

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Amazon Reaches Deal To End Workers' Genetic Privacy Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Amazon has agreed to end a lawsuit alleging that it violated Illinois genetic privacy law by seeking information about job applicants' family medical history, according to a federal court filing.

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Ed. Dept. Tries New Tack To Scrap K-12 Mental Health Grants

By Ben Adlin

The U.S. Department of Education pressed ahead with its plan to end up to a billion dollars in school mental health grants, arguing Wednesday that a Seattle federal judge's December 2025 injunction barring the discontinuation of the grants shouldn't block the government from canceling the contracts outright.

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SEVENTH CIRCUIT

7th Circ. Affirms Grunt Style's $739K Army Motto TM Award

By Elliot Weld

The Seventh Circuit has upheld a jury verdict that awarded Chicago T-shirt company Grunt Style LLC $739,000 against another company for infringing its trademark of the U.S. Army slogan "This We'll Defend," saying that when it comes down to it, the case is about which company started using the mark first.

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CVS Can Keep Trial Win In Cooler Injury Case, 7th Circ. Says

By Y. Peter Kang

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday affirmed a defense verdict for CVS in a suit alleging it caused an Illinois shopper's injuries when dozens of water bottles fell out of a cooler, saying the plaintiff failed to prove the retailer had the requisite control of the allegedly dangerous condition.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Trump Admin's Agency Records Purge Tests Judicial Notice

While courts commonly take judicial notice of data in government websites and reports, the Trump administration's recent modification or wholesale deletion of these sources means that litigants must look elsewhere to support trial admission of this information, says Jon Gryskiewicz at Lewis Baach.

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Series

Cow Horse Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2026 Law360 400

By Daniela Porat

Law360 is pleased to announce its list of the 400 largest U.S. firms by headcount.

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Kellogg Hansen Bests Susman Godfrey's Associate Pay Hikes

By Andrea Keckley

More litigation boutiques are joining the growing number of firms raising their base salaries for associates, with Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC exceeding the scale Susman Godfrey LLP set earlier this week.

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SDNY US Atty Jay Clayton Picked For DNI After Pulte Pushback

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he's nominating Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be director of national intelligence.

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Miss America CEO Wants Ex-Atty Barred From Court

By Emily Lever

The CEO of Miss America and companies linked to the pageant asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to bar their former counsel Carlton Fields from a status conference in their litigation over Miss America's bankruptcy, arguing the firm is not a party and is no longer counsel of record.

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Immigration Firm Says Attys Fraudulently Poached Clients

By Britain Eakin

A law firm recently accused of running a volume-driven immigration filing mill claimed in a new lawsuit in Ohio federal court that three attorneys and a TikTok personality orchestrated a social media campaign falsely accusing it of visa fraud as a way to poach its clients.

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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Gets Fla. Law License Back

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro after his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case was eventually cleared by a court order invalidating the charge.

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Mass. Attys Ding Watchdog's 'Myopic' Public Defense Report

By Julie Manganis

The leader of a group of Massachusetts attorneys who stopped taking court-appointed cases last year over what they say are inadequate hourly rates on Thursday slammed a state inspector general's highly critical report on the state's indigent defense system as "myopic."

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Aronberg Goldgehn

Barnes & Thornburg

Benesch

Carlton Fields

Collins Bargione

Elsberg Baker

Faegre Drinker

Foley & Lardner

Glenn Agre

Holwell Shuster

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kellogg Hansen

Kirkland & Ellis

Klaris Law

Kluger Kaplan

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Baach

Lisinski Law Firm

Loevy & Loevy

Lubin Austermuehle

MH Sub I LLC

Mag Mile Law

Milbank LLP

Milberg PLLC

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Nagel Rice

Pearson Warshaw

Podhurst Orseck

Poulos LoPiccolo

Reese LLP

Richards Layton

Rothwell Figg

Siri & Glimstad

Sudekum Cassidy

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Swanson Martin

Taft Stettinius

Wallace Miller

Williams Dirks

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

Ascot Underwriting Ltd.

Aurora Flight Sciences Corp.

Bayer AG

CITGO Petroleum Corp.

CVS Health Corp.

CooperSurgical Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

DraftKings Inc.

Elanco Animal Health Inc.

FanDuel Inc.

McAfee Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Minder LLC

Nestle SA

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Springer Nature Ltd.

The Florida Bar

The New York Times Co.

TikTok Inc.

Tommy Hilfiger Corp.

Walmart Inc.

Ziff Davis Holdings Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Central Intelligence Agency

Committee for Public Counsel Services

Federal Housing Finance Agency

Florida Supreme Court

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

Washington Attorney General's Office